druidic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
On a Sunday evening in January 1884, dressed in white druidic robes, he carried out his own funeral on a hillside above Llantrisant.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2020
As metal as these get-ups may sound, such costumes and paraphernalia are fixtures in certain circles in Britain: New Age–y, druidic, and otherwise benignly countercultural.
From Slate • Jul. 26, 2017
In druidic tradition, ivy was often paired with holly; the ivy represented female elements of the natural world, and the holly manifested the male.
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2017
“This building behind us does not house the Oracle of Delphi,” he fumed, saying what he saw as an “antiquated druidic approach” to cameras by justices is “simply not appropriate for a contemporary democracy.”
From US News • Oct. 8, 2015
Roman writers tell us that neophytes for the druidic priesthood often spent twenty years in severe study and training before being deemed fit to be called Druids.
From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by Wentz, W. Y. Evans
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
